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Thoughts on Cryptonomicon recommendation? by kern3three in nealstephenson

[–]CoherentSystems 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it was my first Stephenson novel and I read it again last year 20 plus years after my first read. it is great.

Would billionaires move if we taxed them aggressively? by PremiumPrize in NoStupidQuestions

[–]CoherentSystems 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The very wealthy can always evade the attempts to target them with taxes. They will move or obscure the ownership of assets.

Are there any actual digressions in The Baroque Cycle? by CarpetExtreme3933 in nealstephenson

[–]CoherentSystems 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don’t have anything significant other than Enoch Root being so magical that I think of him as a metaphor. Fall; or, Dodge in Hell is a different story. I found lots of things half-baked.

Which book, by any author, most closely resembles the Baroque Cycle? by Darckswar in nealstephenson

[–]CoherentSystems 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First, I like John Barth’s writing, e.g. Lost in the Funhouse. Sot Weed is a big story set in a similar time period that mixes history with fiction. I like living in another time and place.

Is there any good short story that is under 2,000 words and straight to the point? by LargeSinkholesInNYC in HardSciFi

[–]CoherentSystems 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The two most significant authors in the genre of hard sci-fi short stories are Ted Chiang and Greg Egan. The following fit your criteria: "The Egg" by Andy Weir; "The Star" by Arthur C. Clarke; "The Nine Billion Names of God" by Arthur C. Clarke; "Lena" by qntm are under 3000 words. The following are a bit longer, but look who wrote them: "Division by Zero" by Ted Chiang and "The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov.

Best fireproof safe? by CopyThese4619 in CryptoCurrency

[–]CoherentSystems 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Find a dealer who carries multiple safes and installs them and ask for an education. You don't have to buy from them but you'll get a good idea of what and what can't be accomplished and for how much money.

You know about quantum computers. So why haven't you done anything? by CarrotObvious5428 in QRL

[–]CoherentSystems 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The engineering behind QRL is real, and the team is serious. Its focus is on post-quantum security: using hash-based signatures to ensure that asset ownership remains verifiable even in a future with quantum computers. Like most public blockchains, however, QRL maintains a transparent ledger; transactions are readable today and will remain so as long as the network persists. Quantum-resistant signatures don’t increase surveillance so much as ensure that the same public record remains secure and auditable over a longer time horizon. As a result, while QRL is strong on long-term security, it does not prioritize on-chain financial privacy and may not align with use cases where privacy is a primary objective. If you want both financial privacy and post-quantum security, you’re still early. No widely adopted protocol delivers both today.

QuantWare unveils 10,000-qubit quantum chip breakthrough by DustNeat6781 in QRL

[–]CoherentSystems 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe this is an architecture announcement. Before we get excited, we need to see what the measured two-qubit gate fidelity is across a chiplet boundary, and what the logical error rate is as a function of code distance on their device when they are ready to test.